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contribution to medieval historiography

...(“middle era”), and
media tempora (“middle times”), all first used between 1514 and 1530. The political theorist and historian
Melchior Goldast appears to have coined the variation
medium aevum (“a middle age”) in 1604; shortly after, in a Latin work of 1610, the English...

“Monarchia romani imperii”

...countries. The most important antecedent of the
Monumenta Germaniae Historica was the
Monarchia romani imperii, a collection of documents on German medieval history compiled by
Melchior Goldast (d. 1635). The initiator of the
Monumenta Germaniae Historica was Karl Freiherr vom Stein (d. 1831), leading early 19th-century German statesman and reformer, who, after...